Stealing me will be considered permission to post the cctv footage on our social media‘

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   Carey Lening :blobcatverified: (privacat@dataprotection.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 09:22:32 JST Carey Lening :blobcatverified:

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   The INTERESTING part is the label at the bottom of the lamp. The caption reads: “Stealing me will be considered permission to post the cctv footage on our social media”

   You guys, I honestly laughed out loud at that one.

   Since I was (mildly) drunk, I decided to inquire if the management had ever followed through. The manager, a very amiable Irish lad named Tommy, admitted that he had, on one occasion done this. He told the story of how a woman and her kid absconded with a lamp, whereupon he posted a torso-only photo of the woman — blurring out her face and that of the kid.

   For added hilarity, he threatened to post increasingly less-blurry images of the woman until the lamp was returned. Less than a week later, the lamp and the bar were reunited, none worse for the wear.

   Whether the woman was ever identifiable to others beyond herself is a question I’ll leave to the reader.

   Consider this a little reminder that you can run into data protection issues in any circumstance, even at your local boozer.